Pitcairn's Island (eBook)

Sea Adventure Novel

James Norman Hall, Charles Nordhoff (Autoren)

eBook Download: EPUB

2022
261 Seiten
e-artnow (Verlag)
406-633812005-2 (EAN)

Infos

Pitcairn's Island follows the Bounty mutineers as they try to settle and found colony in the islands of the South Seas. After two unsuccessful attempts to settle on the island of Tubuai, the Bounty mutineers returned to Tahiti where they parted company. Fletcher Christian and eight of his men, together with eighteen Polynesians, sailed from Tahiti in September 1789, and for a period of eighteen years nothing was heard of them. Then, in 1808, the American sailing vessel Topaz discovered a thriving community of mixed blood on Pitcairn Island under the rule of Alexander Smith.

Autor

James Norman Hall (1887-1951) was an American writer best known for The Bounty Trilogy, three historical novels he wrote with Charles Nordhoff. During World War I, Hall had the distinction of serving in the militaries of three Western allies: Great Britain as an infantryman, and then France and the United States as an aviator. After the war, Hall spent much of his life on the island of Tahiti, where he and Nordhoff wrote a number of successful adventure books, many adapted for film.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 4.1.2022
• Verlagsort: Prague
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Historische Romane
• Schlagworte: 18th century mutiny • Adventure • After the flood • Based on the True Events • Bounty mutineers survival • colonial era exploration • Gulliver’s Travels • historical maritime fiction • Historical Novel • Jack London • Jules Verne • Moby Dick • mutineer descendants community • Pacific Ocean settlements • Pitcairn Island colony • Polynesian cultural interactions • Robinson Crusoe • seafaring historical narrative • South Seas Adventure • The Last Lieutenant • The Last Odyssey • Treasure Island • Turning the Storm